The autopsy identified 21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, arms and legs, including ten buckshot wounds from the initial shotgun blast. Malcolm X was pronounced dead at 3:30 pm, shortly after arriving at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" Īs Malcolm X and his bodyguards tried to quell the disturbance, a man rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun and two other men charged the stage firing semi-automatic handguns. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, Assassination The Audubon Ballroom stage after the murder, with bullet holes marked by circles Assassin Thomas Hagan being restrained by a police officer at the hospital where he was taken after the killing. On February 19, 1965, Malcolm X told interviewer Gordon Parks that the Nation of Islam was actively trying to kill him. He went on to say that, "No one can get out without trouble, and this thing with me will be resolved by death and violence. On February 18, Malcolm X relayed in an interview that he was a "marked man", referring to his severed ties with the Nation and how it would ultimately be the reason for his demise. Photos taken moments after the fatal shots were fired, including one of activist Yuri Kochiyama cradling the dying Malcolm X's head. "The Violent End of the Man Called Malcolm", LIFE, March 5, 1965. The September 1964 issue of Ebony dramatized Malcolm X's defiance of these threats by publishing a photograph of him holding an M1 carbine while peering out a window. On July 9, Muhammad aide John Ali (suspected of being an undercover FBI agent) referred to Malcolm X by saying, "Anyone who opposes the Honorable Elijah Muhammad puts their life in jeopardy." In the December 4 issue of Muhammad Speaks, Louis X wrote that "such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death." His family was ordered to vacate but on February 14, 1965-the night before a hearing on postponing the eviction-the house was destroyed by fire. On June 8, FBI surveillance recorded a telephone call in which Betty Shabazz was told that her husband was "as good as dead." Four days later, an FBI informant received a tip that "Malcolm X is going to be bumped off." That same month, the Nation sued to reclaim Malcolm X's residence in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York. In March, Elijah Muhammad told Boston minister Louis X (later known as Louis Farrakhan) that "hypocrites like Malcolm should have their heads cut off" the April 10 edition of Muhammad Speaks featured a cartoon depicting Malcolm X's bouncing, severed head. In February, a leader of Temple Number Seven ordered the bombing of Malcolm X's car. Malcolm X publicly announced his departure from the NOI in March, 1964. Kennedy and also after Malcolm X condemned Muhammed's sexual relationships with several children. Malcolm X fell out with the NOI, and the group's leader Elijah Muhammed, after Malcolm X's provocative remarks about the assassination of President John F. Throughout 1964, Malcolm X's conflict with the Nation of Islam (NOI) intensified, and he was repeatedly threatened. Death threats and intimidation from Nation of Islam Kennedy in 1963, and three years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. The assassination was one of four major assassinations of the 1960s in the United States, coming two years after the assassination of John F. Speculation about the assassination and whether it was conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the Nation, or by law enforcement agencies, has persisted for decades after the shooting. Three members of the Nation of Islam- Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Khalil Islam, and Thomas Hagan-were charged, tried, and convicted of the murder and given indeterminate life sentences, but in November 2021, Aziz and Islam were exonerated. While preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, Malcolm X was shot multiple times and killed. Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City on Februat age 39. Life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 yearsĬompensation from the state and city of New York to Aziz and the family of Islam settled for $36 million All guilty (Aziz and Islam's convictions overturned in 2021)
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